the-trans-anon
asked:
This is a stupid question but i’m asking it anyway: is book Aziraphale a murderer?
neil-gaiman
answered:

It all depends on what you think happens here:

And, occasionally, serious men in dark suits would come calling

and suggest, very politely, that perhaps he’d like to sell the shop itself

so that it could be turned into the kind of retail outlet more suited to

the area. Sometimes they’d offer cash, in large rolls of grubby fifty pound

notes. Or, sometimes, while they were talking, other men in

dark glasses would wander around the shop shaking their heads and

saying how inflammable paper was, and what a firetrap he had

here.

And Aziraphale would nod and smile and say that he’d think

about it. And then they’d go away. And they’d never come back.

Just because you’re an angel doesn’t mean you have to be a fool.

If you think murder happens… well, then murders have been committed. (But Aziraphale didn’t kill those men. You did.)